A well-knit and comely people are the inhabitants of Bali, the mountainous
volcanic island which has the by-name of "Little Java" of the Lesser
Sunda group, separated at one place from Java by scarcely a mile's breadth
of shallow sea. There are a few Mahomedans among its dense population,
but the dominant religion is a form of Hinduism which includes most of
its caste prejudices